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Trump’s defense secretary,
Pete Hegseth, said Monday that
the Pentagon will investigate Mark Kelly,
a Democratic senator from Arizona and retired Navy officer,
for his role in making a video reminding service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders.

In targeting Kelly
-- and another prominent Democratic critic of the administration,
Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia,
-- the Defense Department has been co-opted into the president’s norm-shatte…

Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s ‘retribution campaign’
In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump’s norm-shattering bid to punish political foes.

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

Brock Purdy shriveled on 'Monday Night Football.' 49ers need him to bounce back in a hurry https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6836642/2025/11/25/brock-purdy-49ers-panthers-monday-night-football/

Democrats' last-minute move to block GOP funding plan sends lawmakers home early (Alex Miller/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-last-minute-move-block-gop-funding-plan-sends-lawmakers-home-early
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p59#a251219p59

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Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…

Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled Monday in favor of 12 attorneys general who sued after their states faced reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary” status. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had cut over $233 million from several states. McElroy found the funding cuts arbitrary and ordered their rest…

Shutdown Suffering is affecting more Americans.
Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/trump-democrats-shutdown-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSour…

The Shutdown Is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.

Arizona’s attorney general is suing to force the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September.
Grijalva was elected on 23 September in the southern Arizona district that her father, Raúl Grijalva, held until his death earlier this year.
Kris Mayes, the Democratic attorney general in Arizona, had promised to sue if Johnson would not let Grijalva get started on her work. She sent a letter to J…